Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] arm64/crc32: Implement 4-way interleave using PMULL

[Eric Biggers]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 09:53:51AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Now that kernel mode NEON no longer disables preemption, using FP/SIMD
> in library code which is not obviously part of the crypto subsystem is
> no longer problematic, as it will no longer incur unexpected latencies.
> 
> So accelerate the CRC-32 library code on arm64 to use a 4-way
> interleave, using PMULL instructions to implement the folding.
> 
> On Apple M2, this results in a speedup of 2 - 2.8x when using input
> sizes of 1k - 8k. For smaller sizes, the overhead of preserving and
> restoring the FP/SIMD register file may not be worth it, so 1k is used
> as a threshold for choosing this code path.
> 
> The coefficient tables were generated using code provided by Eric. [0]
> 
> [0] https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate/blob/master/scripts/gen_crc32_multipliers.c
> 
> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/lib/crc32-glue.c |  48 ++++
>  arch/arm64/lib/crc32.S      | 231 +++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 276 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>

> +	if (len >= min_len && cpu_have_named_feature(PMULL) && crypto_simd_usable()) {

Using crypto_simd_usable() here causes a build error when CRYPTO_ALGAPI2=m.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20241018235343.425758-1-ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx
will fix that.

- Eric